Workmen's advocate., 1887-02-26

will pay for it, which is rarely more than one-half of its real value Labor becomes merchandise, which, like every other, is sold for what it will bring. And as the supply of labor is, or soon becomes greater than the demand for it, the competition of capitalists for the worlds market of their goods pre- vents them from paying more.for Labor than what it costs to keep it's soul and body together. Production is no longer calculated to satisfy consumption of merchandise; no producing capitalist can foresee how large the demand for his merchandise.will be; but every one has the motive to outbid his competitors for the market. Consumption is artihcially stimulated: hundred ingenious means are invented to make people buy what they do not really need, simply because it is cheap and showy. Here comes the invention of thousands of new and stead
 
 division of labor .manipulations, to pro- duce always more cheaply and to mon opoize the worlds markets with the aid of conquests, treaties colonization and the ruin old native industries. Women and children ,'are pressed into the service of manufactures and to sup plant men, especially the expert and ed ucated handicraftsmen.i If that is not sufficient to render production cheap, and labor submissive, and profits large, foreign cheap labor is imported, and the organization of laborers for mutual pro- lection of their standard of life is warred against, Men are made cheap for the sake of rendering merchandise cheap. Few men can now follow a congenial vocation and natural inclination to work; they must drudge as servants of ma chimes and overseers, simply for the profit of capitalists. The latter them selves oust one another from the market, each anutacturing nation is at indus trial war with all others, and more and more capitalists are ruined for the bene- fit of fewer and fewer large ones.
 This IS dnorchy under the disguise of peace, law and order. Anarchy rules supreme in all modern countries, wheth- CT republican or monarchical, democrat | ic or despotic, protectionist or free trade | And the result is the general impoverish- ment of majority of every nation, the ! destruction of capital itself by the utter ruin of the purchasing power of nations, and commercial and financial crises and cfdshes which return every few years, on an ever larger scale. And all the states manship in existence is utterly unable to remedy this self-imposed misery and retrogression.
 All this was foreseen and prophesied by the science of the political economy of the Social school of Karl Marx. But their doctrine, although never controverted, was discredited, and the party advocating it was subjected to prosecutions of all kinds, as though they were not physicians of the sick times, but quacks and the cause of all the worlds misery. They knew that all prophets were doomed to martyrdom and took to endurance and quiet organi- zation, and propaganda of their ideas among the masses. The sacrifices of the old Christian martyrs were repro duCed, at least in Europe, and tens of thousands paid with their lives for the confession of their sacred and well-dem- onstrable convictions.
 No wonder that few of this great host of sufferers lost their patience and turned out practical anarchists. Des- pairing of any other rescue than by forcible means, and goaded on by the murder and ruin of thousands of com rades, they vowed bloody revenge and became criminals from motives of hu- manity. They preached, and, in a few cases. practiced murder and robbery of those whom they in their despair took for members of murdering and robbing class.
 We Establishments do not initiate, do not even excuse them. But we charge their guilt, their legal crimes, on the ruling class which has made them what they are. No doubt, they are